Mexican Corruption - Page 7

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — More than 3,800 human bone fragments have been recovered from a ranch in the Mexican state of Coahuila pointing to yet another chapter of the mass exterminations carried out over time by the Los Zetas cartel with the help of corrupt government officials.

Since early 2015, human rights groups and grieving parents have been carrying out searches in the ranch known as Patrocinio near the town of San Pedro Coahuila, information released by the Coahuila government revealed. The area where the fragments were found is part of the region known as La Laguna, a place that saw a spike in violence since 2006 when hostilities between the Los Zetas and Sinaloa cartels began.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – La nueva alcaldesa de esta ciudad fronteriza ha ordenado una investigación sobre los archivos de la administración anterior después de que las autoridades arrestaron a tres ex empleados de la ciudad irrumpiendo en un edificio del gobierno para robar archivos.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The newly-sworn mayor of this border city has ordered an investigation into the previous administration after authorities arrested three former city employees breaking into a government building to steal files and computers.

Mexican citizen journalists are exposing what appears to be complicity between Mexican police officers and cartel gunmen during an apparent kidnapping in Sinaloa.

RIO BRAVO, Tamaulipas — One of the leading commanders within the faction of the Gulf Cartel that controls this border city was apprehended by Mexican federal authorities but was suspiciously released days later.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — La alcaldesa en esta ciudad fronteriza tomo una acción directa al encuartelar e ordenar la investigación de 40 oficiales del cuerpo de transito municipal.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas– The mayor of this border city has taken direct action against 40 officers with the transit police by ordering them to be confined to their headquarters while the City carries out an internal investigation.

Un policía estatal pago con su vida el negarse a cometer un asalto y la violación de una mujer a petición de un amigo, otro oficial de la llamada “Fuerza Civil”, que se enfureció y le disparo en el pecho, cuando ambos se encontraban fuera de servicio en el suburbio de Apodaca.

A state police officer reportedly gunned down a fellow cop for refusing to rob and rape a woman in this border state. The murder suspect lashed out in anger at the refusal by his partner to carry out the crime in the suburb of Apodaca.

Raging cartel violence, widespread corruption, human rights abuses and a tanking economy have made Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto one of the most vilified figures in that nation’s recent history.

A recent poll found Pena Nieto’s approval rating at its lowest ever with 80 percent holding a negative view of the president, Mexico’s Animal Politico reported. When the pollsters asked to rate Peña Nieto’s performance on a scale of 0-10, the average score was only 3.9 points. The trend has intensified in recent months with his approval tanking from 30 percent in April to the current low of 23.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Las autoridades mexicanas continúan encubriendo la violencia de los cárteles que se lleva a cabo en el estado, sobre todo los enfrentamientos donde hombres armados toman la delantera.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities continue to cover up the ongoing cartel violence that takes place throughout the state, particularly in the gun battles where cartel gunmen get the upper hand.

In one of the recent gun battles, the Gulf Cartel was able to mobilize a large number of gunmen–forcing police officers to retreat from one neighborhood known for being filled with stash houses.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The former mayor of this Mexican border city was seen having breakfast with relatives and friends, despite being a wanted fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A leaked video taken by citizen journalists revealed the way cartel gunmen board passenger buses in order control the flow of illegal immigrants to the Texas border.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The daughter of a Mexican politician has been connected to an ongoing investigation into a failed drug smuggling attempt in this border city.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Miembros del cártel de Los Zetas han estado utilizando el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas como un refugio seguro desde donde han estado lanzando sus ataques a los estados vecinos de Nuevo León y Coahuila.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Members of the Los Zetas drug cartel have been using the border state of Tamaulipas as a safe haven from where they have been launching their attacks into the neighboring states of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – El ex alcalde de esta ciudad fronteriza ha caído en otro de sus desvaríos delirantes afirmando que el decomiso de los bienes por el gobierno de Estados Unidos no es más que un ataque de los medios de comunicación. El ex alcalde llamó aberrante que los funcionarios de otro país estén auditando al gobierno de México.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The former mayor of this border city has gone on another of his delusional rants claiming that the seizure of assets by the U.S. government is nothing more than a media attack. The former mayor called it “abhorrent” that officials from another country were auditing the government of Mexico.

The governor of the Mexican state of Michoacan has singled out one of the mayors in his state, several local police officers and one state cop as being responsible for the murder of several victims whose bodies were incinerated.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — En los últimos 13 años han sido asesinados 47 alcaldes en Mexico, la mayoría de las ejecuciones fueron por orden de los varios grupos de crimen organizado que operan en este país.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — In the last 13 years, 47 Mexican mayors have been murdered in Mexico. Most of those executions were under orders of the various drug cartels that operate in the country.

The mayors of two rural Mexican communities in the states of Chiapas and Guerrero were murdered in one day. One of the mayors was murdered by a group of gunmen, while the other was beaten to death by protesters.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The Los Zetas cartel is demanding that the Mexican government protect them from their rivals and in exchange they will stop murdering innocent civilians.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — The son of a top Mexican politician who aspired to be a politico himself, had become the latest victim of cartel violence in this city. He was shot by police in a drug deal gone bad.

Rising tensions exploded in Mexico when hundreds of protesting teachers clashed with police officers after days of protests. The raging violence has resulted so far in six deaths, dozens of injuries, and scores of arrests.

U.S. federal agents arrested a former Mexican official with strong political connections on Thursday night in San Antonio, Texas. The man was arrested on money laundering charges along with 15 other people.

Mexico’s efforts to clean up their badly damaged image in regards to human rights violations appear to have taken a turn for the worse. The newly appointed head of the special unit charged with tackling the case of 43 missing education students appears to have ties to Mexico’s most famous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

Mexico’s Human Rights Commission has issued a scathing report slamming the Tamaulipas government over how a local reporter from the border city of Reynosa was assaulted and jailed by state cops.

Citizens are crying foul at the recent mayoral elections in this border city. Voters are claiming that Mexican politicians used their network of associates to rig the elections in favor of the country’s ruling party.

Authorities in this border state have begun to arrest various individuals tied to a clandestine crematorium run by the Los Zetas Cartel. The suspects in this particular case are tied to the kidnapping and incineration of victims inside the Piedras Negras prison.

One of Mexico’s Largest newspapers, El Universal, has revealed the influential power of Mexican politics when it praised a former Tamaulipas governor while forgetting to mention that he is currently a fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The newly elected governor in the border state of Tamaulipas has promised to take on cartels, fight corruption and regain the trust of the business and law enforcement partners the state has with Texas and the rest of the nation.

A fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice and former governor from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas came out to a public polling booth in Mexico to vote for the members of his party.

Authorities in the northern Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon have seized assets of that state’s former governor and some of his top officials. Investigators are accusing them of public corruption and embezzlement to the tune of more than $200 million.

A Mexican border governor may have assets seized by a Spanish court after a judge ruled against him in the allegations that he used public funds to pay a personal debt.